Dumbarton Oaks Papers Number Five

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto edition bound in blue cloth, lettered in gilt at the spine. Edited by The Committee on Publications The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Trustees for Harvard University Washington, District of Columbia. Contains six essays; Andre Garbar analyzes the form and iconography of several reliqaries of St. Demetrius (written in French). A. A. Vasiliev - The Historical Significance of the Mosaic of Saint Demetrius at Sassoferrato; Paul A. Underwood - The Fountain of Life in Manuscripts of the Gospels; Peter Charanis - The Chronicle of Monemvasia and the Question of the Slavonic Settlements in Greece; Sister Mary Emily Keenan, S.C.N. - A Study of the Ascetical Doctrine of Saint Gregory of Nyssa; Ernest Honigmann - Juvenal of Jerusalem. The jacket is missing but the two interior flaps with text are present. A clean, bright and solid copy. Illustrated.

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